Identity, Youth, and Crisis Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Identity

Students will develop their own definition of their identity by creating a list of things that serve to create that identity.

2. Definitions

The students will look up the words "identity" and "identity crisis" and define these words and then write a short one-paragraph story using both words based on their definitions.

3. Scientific Methods

Erikson discusses the science of identity formation. Students will divide into groups in develop an experiment in order to determine whether someone has developed their...
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